Giuseppe Verdi

(1813-1901)

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100 Best Verdi

CD 1

1. Aida (2001 Digital Remaster) - Se quel guerrier io fossi .... Celeste Aida

Placido Domingo

2. La Traviata - Scena, aria e cabaletta: Lunge da lei...De' miei bollenti...O mio rimorso (Alfredo)

Rolando Villazon

3. Scene & Aria - Di Provenza il mar, il suol

Renato Bruson

4. Un ballo in maschera (1990 Digital Remaster) - Di' tu se fedele (Act I) (1990 Digital Remaster)

Giuseppe Patanè

5. Un ballo in maschera - Forse la soglia...Ma se m'è forza perdeti

New Philharmonia Orchestra

6. Scene 1 (1996 Digital Remaster) - Questa o quella (Duca) (1996 Digital Remaster)

Alfredo Kraus

7. Rigoletto (1995 Digital Remaster) - Pari siamo!

Alberto Erede

8. Act 3 (1996 Digital Remaster) - La donna è mobile (Duca) (1996 Digital Remaster)

Alfredo Kraus

9. Luisa Miller - Oh! Fede negar potessi... Quando le sere al placido

Franco Ferraris

10. Macbeth (1985 Digital Remaster) - O figli, o figli miei ... Ah, la paterna mano

José Carreras

11. Il trovatore (1995 Digital Remaster) - Il balen del suo sorriso

Berliner Symphoniker

12. ACT 3 Scene Two - Ah si, ben mio, coll'essere io tuo (Manrico)

Chöre der Deutschen Oper Berlin

13. ACT 3 Scene Two - Di quella pira l'orrendo foco (Manrico/Ruiz/Coro)

Chöre der Deutschen Oper Berlin

14. I Lombardi - Cavatina: La mia letizia (Oronte)

Rolando Villazon

15. ACTE 1 - Récitative et Romance: Fontainbleau! Forêt immense et solitaire! (Don Carlos)

Roberto Alagna

16. Sequenza: - Ingemisco

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

17. La Forza del Destino (1993 Digital Remaster) - La Vita e inferno all'infelice-oh tu che in seno agli'angeli

Carlo Bergonzi

18. Otello - Niun mi tema (Act 4)

John Barker

19. Scene One - L'Onore! Ladri!...Io stesso, sì, io, io (Falstaff)

Tito Gobbi

CD 2

1. La Traviata - È strano! È strano!...Ah, fors` è lui

Concerto Köln

2. La Traviata - Follie! Follie!...Sempre libera

Concerto Köln

3. La Traviata (1992 Digital Remaster) - Teneste la promessa....Attendo - ne a me giungon mai!....Addio, del passato (Violetta/Annina/Doctor)

Silvio Maionica

4. Rigoletto [Act I] (1988 Digital Remaster) - Gualtier Maldè... Caro nome (Gilda, Borsa, Ceprano, Courtiers, Marullo)

Francesco Molinari Pradelli

5. ACT 2 Scene 1 - Condotta ell'era in ceppi (Azucena, Manrico)

Giulietta Simionato

6. ACT 4 Scene 1 - D'amor sull'ali rosee (Leonora)

Chöre der Deutschen Oper Berlin

7. Scene 1 (2007 Digital Remaster) - La luce langue (Lady Macbeth) (2007 Digital Remaster)

Nicola Rescigno

8. Un ballo in maschera: Zitti...Re del abisso - Zitti... l'incanto... Re dell'abisso

Girls from the Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls, Elstree

9. Un ball in maschera: Ecco l'orrido campo - Ecco l'orrido campo ... Ma dall'arido stelo

Martina Arroyo

10. Don Carlo (1984 Digital Remaster) - Don Carlo: O don fatale

Elena Obraztsova

11. ACT 4 - Pace, pace, mio Dio (Donna Leonora)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

12. Aida (2007 Digital Remaster) - Ritorna vincitor (Atto I)

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

13. Aida (2007 Digital Remaster) - Aida: Qui Radamès verrà...O patria mia

Montserrat Caballé

14. Seconda scena/Scene 2/Zweite Szene/Deuxième Scène - Ave Maria, piena di grazia (Desdemona)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

CD 3

1. La traviata: Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (Alfredo/Tutti/Violetta - Act I)

Terry Edwards

2. Act I (1988 Digital Remaster) - Un dì, felice, eterea

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

3. La Traviata - Parigi, o cara

Alfredo Kraus

4. Il Trovatore (highlights) - Mira, d'acerbe lagrime...Vivra:contende il glubilo

Mario Rinaudo

5. Il Trovatore (highlights) - Si, la stanchezza m'opprime...Al nostri montri ritorneremo

Mario Rinaudo

6. Scene 2 (1997 Digital Remaster) - E il sol dell'anima (Duca/Gilda/Ceprano/Borsa/Giovanna)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

7. Act 3 (1989 Digital Remaster) - A lui pensa!...Amai, ma un solo istante (1989 Digital Remaster)

Sherrill Milnes

8. Act 3 (1989 Digital Remaster) - Giovanna d'Arco: Tu che all'eletto Sàulo...Or dal padre benedetta

Sherrill Milnes

9. Un ballo in maschera: Teco io sto...Non sai tu che se l'anima mia...Oh, qual soave brivido - Teco io sto...Non sai tu che se l'anima mia...Oh, qual soave brivido (Act II)

Placido Domingo

10. ACT 3 - Solenne in quest'ora (Don Alvaro/Don Carlo di Vargas)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

11. Sequenza: - Recordare

Jon Vickers

12. Don Carlo (2000 Digital Remaster) - Dio, che nell'alma infondere amor (Carlo/Rodrigo/Coro/Un Frate) (2000 Digital Remaster)

John McCarthy

13. Act 3 - Aida: Ciel! mio padre!...Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamate

Mario Sereni

14. Act 3 - Aida: O terra addio (2001 Digital Remaster)

Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

15. Terza scena/Scene 3/Dritte Szene/Troisième Scène - Gia nella notte densa ....

Glynne Thomas

16. Terza scena/Scene 3/Dritte Szene/Troisième Scène - Quando narravi ... Ed io vedea fra le tue tempie ... Venga la morte! (Otello/Desdemona)

Glynne Thomas

CD 4

1. ATTO TERZO/ACT 3/DRITTER AKT/TROISIÈME ACTE - Rigoletto: Un dì, se ben rammentomi...Bella figlia dell'amore

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

2. ACT 4 Scene 1 - Miserere...Quel suon, quelle preci (Coro/Leonora/Manrico)

Leontyne Price

3. ACT 4 Scene 1 - Macbeth: O gran Dio, che ne'cuori penetri

Giuliano Bernardi

4. Macbeth (1999 Digital Remaster) - Si colmi il calice (Lady Macbeth/Coro/Macduff/Dama) (1999 Digital Remaster)

John McCarthy

5. Scena prima/Scene 1/Erste Szene/Première Scène - Volta la terrea (Oscar/Riccardo/Giudice/Renato/Samuel/Tom/Coro) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Piero Cappuccilli

6. Scena prima/Scene 1/Erste Szene/Première Scène - Ogni cura si doni al diletto (Riccardo/Renato/Oscar/Samuel/Tom/Coro) (1997 Digital Remaster)

Piero Cappuccilli

7. ACT 2 - Al suon del tamburo (Preziosilla/Un Alcade/Don Carlo di Vargas)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

8. ACT 3 - Rataplan, rataplan, della gloria (Preziosilla)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

9. ACT 4 - Non imprecare, umiliata (Padre Guardiano/Donna Leonora/Don Alvaro)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

10. ACT 1 - Nei giardin del bello (Eboli/Tebaldo/Coro di Dame)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

11. Don Carlo (2000 Digital Remaster) - Ah! si maledetto, sospetto fatale (Filippo/Elisabetta/Eboli/Rodrigo) (2000 Digital Remaster)

Shirley Verrett

12. Scena seconda/Scene Two (Conclusion) - Plebe! Patrizi! (Simone/Coro/Amelia/Pietro/Paolo/Gabriele/Fiesco)

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma

13. Sequenza: - Lacrymosa

Jon Vickers

14. Aida (1986 Digital Remaster) - Su! del Nilo al sacro lido

Thomas Moser

15. Scene 2 (1989 Digital Remaster) - Nume, custode e vindice (Ramfis, Radames, Priests, Priestesses, Priestess) (1989 Digital Remaster)

Mirella Fiorentini

16. Scene 2 (1989 Digital Remaster) - Aida: Che veggo! Egli? Mio padre!

Ferruccio Mazzoli

17. Ottava e Nona scena/Scenes 8 & 9/Achte und Neunte Szene/Huitième et Neuvième Scènes - Otello: A terra! sì, nel livido fango

Florindo Andreolli

18. Scene Two - Del tuo barbaro diagnostico (Caio/Alice/Nannetta/Quickly/Meg/Uomini)

Roberto Benaglio

CD 5

1. ACT 2 Scene 1 - Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie (Anvil Chorus) (Gypsies)

Gianni Lazzari

2. ACT 3 Scene 1 - Or co' dadi, ma fra poco (Soldiers' Chorus) (Soldiers, Ferrando)

Gianni Lazzari

3. Nabucco - Gli arredi festivi

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

4. Nabucco - Va pensiero, sull'ali dorata

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

5. Act I - Evviva! beviam! beviam!

6. Act III - Un patto! un giuramento!...Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia

7. Rigoletto [Act I] (1988 Digital Remaster) - Zitti, zitti, (Courtiers, Gilda, Rigoletto)

Francesco Molinari Pradelli

8. Scene II - Noi siamo zingarelle (Zingare/Coro/Flora/Marchese) (1988 Digital Remaster)

Richard Van Allan

9. Scene II - Di Madride noi siam mattadori (Gastone/Mattadori/Tutti) (1988 Digital Remaster)

Aldo Ceccato

10. Attila - Urli, rapine (Prologo)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

11. Attila - Viva il ré dalla mille foreste (Prologo)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

12. I Lombardi alla prima crociata - Gerusalem!

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

13. I Lombardi alla prima crociata - O Signore, del tetto natio (Chorus)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

14. Macbeth (1987 Digital Remaster) - Patria oppressa! (Act 4) (1987 Digital Remaster)

Lamberto Gardelli

15. Act V (1996 Digital Remaster) - Si celebri alfine tra canti, tra fior

16. La forza del destino - Nella guerra, è la follia

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

17. Prima scena/Scene 1/Erste Szene/Première Scène - Fuoco di gioia! ... (Ciprioti)

Glynne Thomas

18. Don Carlo (2000 Digital Remaster) - Spuntato ecco il dì d'esultanza (Coro) (2000 Digital Remaster)

John McCarthy

19. Sequenza: - Dies irae

Jon Vickers

20. Sequenza: - Sanctus

Jon Vickers

21. Aida (1987 Digital Remaster) - Gloria all' Egitto (Act II)

Lamberto Gardelli

CD 6

1. La forza del destino - Overture

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

2. Act I - Prelude (1988 Digital Remaster)

Aldo Ceccato

3. Act III - Prelude (1988 Digital Remaster)

Aldo Ceccato

4. Luisa Miller: Overture (2004 Digital Remaster) - Overture

Sir Charles Mackerras

5. Luisa Miller: Overture (2004 Digital Remaster) - Nabucco - Overture

Riccardo Muti

6. I vespri Siciliani (1986 Digital Remaster) - Overture

Riccardo Muti

7. I vespri Siciliani (1986 Digital Remaster) - Ballet Music from Macbeth

Riccardo Muti

8. Aida (1989 Digital Remaster) - Prelude

Tullio Serafin

9. Aida (1998 Digital Remaster) - Act 2, Ballet Music

Herbert von Karajan

10. ATTO TERZO/ACT 3/DRITTER AKT/TROISIEME ACTE - Primo Ballabile - L'Inverno (Orchestra)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

11. ATTO TERZO/ACT 3/DRITTER AKT/TROISIEME ACTE - Terzo Ballabile - L'Estate (Orchestra)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

12. ATTO TERZO/ACT 3/DRITTER AKT/TROISIEME ACTE - Quarto Ballabile - L'Autunno (Orchestra)

Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano

This 6CD set contains 100 tracks from the most familiar and best-loved works by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, performed by many of the world’s leading singers, orchestras and conductors.

The operas of Verdi today form the mainstay of the repertoire of opera houses all over the world. Some of his music has become absorbed into popular culture from being used in TV adverts and film soundtracks, as well as being performed by the most famous classical singers of the day in concerts and on records.

CD 1 brings together many of Verdi’s great arias for tenor and baritone, from the swaggering bravado of ‘La donna è mobile’ from Rigoletto to the heartbreaking poignancy of ‘Niun mi tema’, the death scene from Otello, Verdi’s inspired setting of Shakespeare’s tragedy. The first singer to be heard is the matchless Placido Domingo, and he is followed by a procession of other great tenors including José Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti, Rolando Villazón and Roberto Alagna, as well as some of the world’s finest baritones such as Tito Gobbi and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

CD 2 presents a veritable galaxy of great sopranos and mezzos, led by the legendary Maria Callas and including Natalie Dessay, Victoria de los Angeles and Montserrat Caballé who provide a programme of the greatest Verdi arias for the female voice from operas like La traviata, Rigoletto, Un ballo in maschera and Aida.

In CD 3, the singers come together in pairs for a programme of some of Verdi’s finest duets, the first of which is the irresistible brindisi: ‘Libiamo’ from La traviata sung by Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. Some of the major stars heard on this CD for the first time include Beverly Sills, Renata Scotto and Birgit Nilsson.

CD 4 is a collection of great ensembles, beginning with the famous quartet from Rigoletto and including some of the most powerful passages from Otello, Don Carlo and Aida. The CD finishes with the scene from Verdi’s comic masterpiece Falstaff where the women make fun of Sir John’s clumsy efforts to woo them in one of the most brilliant pieces of quicksilver vocal writing in all opera.

The next CD contains many of Verdi’s best choruses, from the lively Anvil Chorus from Il trovatore to the deeply moving Chorus of Hebrew Slaves: ‘Va, pensiero’ from Nabucco. The disc finishes spectacularly with the Grand March and Chorus from the Triumphal Scene in Aida.

The final CD brings together some of Verdi’s powerful overtures to operas like La forza del destino and Luisa Miller, the deeply moving preludes from La traviata and Aida and some colourful ballet music from Macbeth that Verdi added for its French production. It ends with extracts from the ‘Four Seasons’ ballet from I vespri siciliani, also written specially for its première in Paris.

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Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991

25th Anniversary at Lincoln Center

Strauss, J, II:

Die Fledermaus: Act 2

Verdi:

Rigoletto: Act 3

Otello: Act 3

Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Cheryl Studer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Daniels, Justiano Díaz, Leo Nucci, Hermann Prey, June Anderson, Kathleen Battle, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Thomas Hampson, Uwe Heilmann, Barbara Kilduff, Aprile Millo, Sherrill Milnes, Paul Plishka, Samuel Ramey, Birgitta Svendén & Frederica von Stade

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet, James Levine

The Metropolitan Opera celebrates 25 years at Lincoln Center.

The cast-list for the evening reads like a Who's Who of 20th-century opera.

Thrill to “hours and hours of glorious opera...A triumphant celebration of virtuosity (Toronto Globe and Mail) as New York’s legendary opera company celebrates its first quarter century at Lincoln Center with “one of the most exquisitely refined and extravagant assemblages of vocal artistry the Met stage has yet hosted” (New York Times). “Not just another night at the opera” (Los Angeles Times), this extraordinary gala features complete acts from three favorite works, starring dozens of the world’s greatest singers, all conducted by Met music director James Levine.

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Maria Callas: Love Songs

Arias by Verdi, Puccini, Ponchielli, Giordano, Catalani, Wagner & Donizetti

Catalani:	Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (from La Wally)
Donizetti:	Il dolce suono mi colpì di sua voce! … Spargi d'amaro pianto (from Lucia di Lammermoor)
Giordano, U:	La mamma morta (from Andrea Chénier)
Ponchielli:	Suicidio! (from La Gioconda)
Puccini:	Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly) Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) Signore, ascolta! (from Turandot) O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
Verdi:	Caro nome (from Rigoletto)
Wagner:	Grausamer! Fühlst du im Herzen? (from Parsifal) Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde) sung in Italian

Rigoletto - Gualtier malde! Caro nome

Madame Butterfly - Un bel di vedremo

La Boheme - Si, mi chiamano mimi

Turandot - Signore, ascolta

Lucia Di Lammermoor - Il dolce suono

Tristan und Isolde - Dolce e calmo

Maria Callas (soprano)

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Verdi: Otello

Jon Vickers (Otello), Mirella Freni (Desdemona), Peter Glossop (Iago), Ryland Davies (Cassio), Hans Wegmann (Rodrigo), Luigi Roni (Lodovico), Siegfried Rudolf Frese (Montano), Stefania Malagù (Emilia), Victor von Halem (Un Araldo)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'. This performance of Otello was recorded in 1973 at the Philharmonie, Berlin.

“a big, bold, brilliant account, for the most part splendidly sung and with all the dramatic contrasts strongly underlined...Freni's Desdemona is delightful, delicate and beautiful, while Vickers and Glossop are both positive and characterful” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition ***

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Verdi: Rigoletto

Maria Callas (Gilda), Tito Gobbi (Rigoletto), Giuseppe di Stefano (Duke), Nicola Zaccaria (Sparafucile), Adriana Lazzarini (Maddalena), Giuse Gerbino (Giovanna), Plinio Clabassi (Monterone), William Dickie (Marullo), Renato Ercolani (Borsa), Carlo Forti (Conte di Ceprano), Elvira Galassi (Contessa di Ceprano), Luisa Mandelli (Un Paggio)

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Tullio Serafin

The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI The Home of Opera. This performance of Rigoletto was recorded in 1955 at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan.

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Verdi: Nabucco

Matteo Manuguerra (Nabucco), Renata Scotto (Abigaille), Veriano Lucchetti (Ismaele), Elena Obraztsova (Fenena), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Zaccaria), Robert Lloyd (Gran Sacerdote)

Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

The mid-price collection presents some of the most important and admired recordings of the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics catalogue which make EMI 'The Home of Opera'.

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Opera 2010

Bellini:	Casta Diva (from Norma) Maria Callas (soprano) Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano Care compagne, et voi, teneri amici ... Come per me sereno (from La Sonnambula) Evelino Pidò
Cilea:	Ecco: respiro appena. Io son l'umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur) Myung-Whun Chung
Donizetti:	Il segreto per esser felici (from Lucrezia Borgia) Vivica Genaux (mezzo)
Dvorak:	Mesícku na nebi hlubokém 'Song to the Moon' (from Rusalka) Münchner Rundfunkorchester
Gershwin:	Bess, you is my woman now (from Porgy and Bess)
Giordano, U:	La mamma morta (from Andrea Chénier) Maria Callas (soprano)
Gluck:	Che faro' senza Euridice? (from Orfeo ed Euridice) David Daniels (countertenor) Harry Bicket
Gounod:	Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (from Roméo et Juliette) Diana Damrau (soprano) L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette) Rolando Villazón (tenor) Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Handel:	Rival ti sono (from Faramondo) Caro amico amplesso! (from Poro) Precipitoso nel mar che freme (from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo) Laurent Naouri (baritone) Crude furie degli orridi abissi (from Serse) Ove son...Qui ti sfido (from Arianna) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù (from Serse) David Daniels (countertenor)
Mascagni:	Attesa (from the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana) Sarah Brightman (soprano) Ed anchè Beppe amò (from L'amico Fritz) Gianandrea Gavazzeni Suzel, buon di 'Cherry Duet' (from L'amico Fritz) Gianandrea Gavazzeni Mamma, quel vino (from Cavalleria Rusticana)
Massenet:	Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)
Mozart:	Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (from Die Zauberflöte) Natalie Dessay (soprano) Louis Langree Và pure ad altri in braccio (from La finta giardiniera) Elina Garanca (mezzo) Camerata Salzburg, Louis Langree In quali eccessi ... Mi tradì quell'alma ingrate (from Don Giovanni) Véronique Gens (soprano) Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio (from Le nozze di Figaro) Teresa Berganza (mezzo) E Susanna non vien! … Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro) Jeffrey Tate O zittre nicht (from Die Zauberflöte) Le Cercle De L'Harmonie
Offenbach:	Barcarolle (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann ) Jessye Norman (soprano)
Puccini:	Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) Vogliatemi bene, un bene piccolini (from Madama Butterfly) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) James Levine Nessun dorma (from Turandot) Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Rameau:	Triste séjour – Argie Les Talens Lyriques
Rossini:	La donna del lago: Fra il padre, e fra l'amante Joyce DiDonato (mezzo) Edoardo Muller
Verdi:	Celeste Aida (from Aida) Plácido Domingo (tenor) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Münchner Rundfunkorchester Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) Terry Edwards
Vivaldi:	Griselda: Agitata da due venti Vivica Genaux (mezzo) Se in ogni guardo from Orlando finto pazzo Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Jean-Christophe Spinosi

Following the enormous success of the album OPERA 2009, EMI Classics is releasing OPERA 2010. Great voices of today and legendary singers of the past, from the EMI and Virgin Classics catalogue: the home of opera.

With 40 tracks, and over 2½ hours of operatic arias and duets, this double album features the best and most popular names in opera from the catalogues of both Virgin Classics and EMI Classics, ranging from the newest arrivals on the operatic scene, as well as many present day superstars, to iconic legends. This is an unmissable collection of the best in opera that will have a wide appeal.

Present day superstars include Angela Gheorghiu, Natalie Dessay, Sarah Brightman, Barbara Hendricks, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Jessye Norman, Placido Domingo, José Carreras, Rolando Villazón, Roberto Alagna and Bryn Terfel.

Rising new artists are strongly represented by Joyce DiDonato, Diana Damrau, Elina Garanca, Vivica Genaux, Véronique Gens, Patrizia Ciofi, Philippe Jaroussky, Jonas Kaufmann, David Daniels, Max Emanuel Cencic and Laurent Naouri.

The programme also contains tracks by some of the world’s greatest singers of the past such as Victoria de los Angeles, Teresa Berganza, Mirella Freni, Lucia Popp and Franco Corelli as well as the legendary Luciano Pavarotti and the unique Maria Callas.

All the most popular operatic composers are represented, from Baroque masters like Vivaldi, Rameau and Handel, through Gluck and Mozart to Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, Cilea and Gershwin, as well as French favourites Gounod, Massenet and Offenbach.

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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: The Great EMI Recordings

Brahms:	Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33 Sviatoslav Richter (piano) Feldeinsamkeit, Op. 86 No. 2 Daniel Barenboim (piano) Vier ernste Gesänge, Op. 121 Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
Cornelius:	Weihnachtslieder (6), Op. 8 Hermann Reutter (piano)
Grieg:	Zur Rosenzeit (No. 5 from Seks Sange, Op. 48) Hartmut Holl (piano)
Liszt:	Es rauschen die Winde, S294 Ständchen, S301 Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh (Wandrers Nachtlied II), S.306 Wieder mocht’ ich dir begegnen Aribert Reimann (piano)
Loewe, C:	Der Erlkönig, Op. 1 No. 3 (Goethe) Herr Oluf "Herr Oluf reitet spät und weit", Op. 2/2 Der Schatzgräber, Op. 59 No. 30 Archibald Douglas, Op. 128 Tom der Reimer "Der Reimer Thomas lag am Bach", Op. 135a Gerald Moore (piano)
Mahler:	Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (4 songs, complete) Daniel Barenboim (piano) Rückert-Lieder (5 songs, complete) Daniel Barenboim (piano) Der Schildwache Nachtlied (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Verlorne Müh' (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Des Antonius von Padua Fischpredigt (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Rheinlegendchen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Lob des hohen Verstandes (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Revelge (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Der Tambourg'sell (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) Daniel Barenboim (piano) Revelge (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell
Mendelssohn:	Neue Liebe, Op. 19a No. 4 Gruß, Op. 19a No. 5 Auf Flügeln des Gesanges, Op. 34 No. 2 Morgengruss (Heine) Op. 47 No. 2 Venetianisches Gondellied, Op. 57 No. 5 'Wenn durch die Piazetta' Nachtlied, Op. 71 No. 6 Der Mond, Op. 86 No. 5 Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano)
Schubert:	Die schöne Müllerin, D795 Gerald Moore (piano) Winterreise D911 Gerald Moore (piano) Schwanengesang, D957 Gerald Moore (piano) Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert) Nacht und Träume, D827 Rastlose Liebe, D138 Nachtviolen D752 (Mayrhofer) Der Einsame, D800 Auflösung, D807 Der Wanderer an den Mond D870 (Seidl) Der Wanderer, D489 An die Musik D547 Auf der Bruck, D853 Im Frühling, D882 An Sylvia, D891 Erlkönig, D328 Nachtstück, D672 (Mayrhofer) Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, second version, D583 (Schiller) Abendstern, D806 Sei mir gegrüsst! D741 (Rückert) Lachen und Weinen, D777 Heidenröslein, D257 Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D300 (Salis-Seewis) Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D343 Seligkeit D433 (Holty) Der Tod und das Mädchen, D531 An die Laute D905 Im Abendrot, D799 Digitally remastered in 2003 Die Forelle, D550 Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D774 Fischerweise, D881 (Schlechta) Des Fischers Liebesgluck, D933 (Leitner) Der Schiffer, D536 (Mayrhofer) Der Winterabend (Es ist so still), D938 Einsamkeit, D620 Das Lied im Grünen, D917 Ständchen 'Horch! Horch! die Lerch!', D889 Wohin? (No. 2 from Die schöne Müllerin, D795) Gerald Moore (piano) Gute Nacht (No. 1 from Winterreise, D911) Gerald Moore (piano)
Schumann:	Liederkreis, Op. 39 Digitally remastered in 2004 Gerald Moore (piano) Romanzen und Balladen I, Op. 45 Digitally remastered in 2004 Liederkreis, Op. 24 Digitally remastered in 2005 Hertha Klunst (piano) Die beiden Grenadiere, Op. 49 No. 1 Gerald Moore (piano) Die feindlichen Brüder, Op. 49 No. 2 Hertha Klunst (piano) Der arme Peter, Op. 53 No. 3 Hertha Klunst (piano) Tragödie Op. 64 No. 3 Hertha Klunst (piano)
Strauss, R:	Zueignung, Op. 10 No. 1 Die Nacht, Op. 10 No. 3 Allerseelen, Op. 10 No. 8 Heimkehr, Op. 15 No. 5 Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2 All mein Gedanken ... Op. 21 No. 1 Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op. 27 No. 1 Cäcilie, Op. 27 No. 2 Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3 Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4 Traum durch die Dämmerung, Op. 29 No. 1 Nachtgang Op. 29 No. 3 Blauer Sommer, Op. 31 No. 1 Ich trage meine Minne, Op. 32 No. 1 Sehnsucht Op. 32 No. 2 Liebeshymnus, Op. 32 No. 3 Das Rosenband, Op. 36 No. 1 Meinem Kinde, Op. 37 No. 3 Befreit, Op. 39 No. 4 Freundliche Vision, Op. 48 No. 1 Winterliebe Op. 48 No. 5 Winterweihe, Op. 48 No. 4 Waldseligkeit, Op. 49 No. 1 Gefunden Op. 56 No. 1 Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland Op. 56 No. 6 Einerlei, Op. 69 No. 3 Schlechtes Wetter, Op. 69 No. 5 Das Bächlein, Op. 88 No. 1 Gerald Moore (piano)
Verdi:	Vanne, la tua meta gia vedo…Credo in un Dio crudel (from Otello) New Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
Wagner:	Der Tannenbaum, WWV 50 Aribert Reimann (piano)
Wolf, H:	Der Freund (No. 1 from Eichendorff-Lieder) Der Musikant (No. 2 from Eichendorff-Lieder) Verschwiegene Liebe (No. 3 from Eichendorff-Lieder) Das Ständchen (No. 4 from Eichendorff-Lieder) Heimweh (No. 12 from Eichendorff-Lieder) Der Genesene an die Hoffnung (No. 1 from Mörike-Lieder) Jägerlied (No. 4 from Mörike-Lieder) Der Tambour (No. 5 from Mörike-Lieder) Begegnung (No. 8 from Mörike-Lieder) Fussreise (No. 10 from Mörike-Lieder) Verborgenheit (No. 12 from Mörike-Lieder) Im Frühling (No. 13 from Mörike-Lieder) Auf ein altes Bild (No. 23 from Mörike-Lieder) In der Frühe (No. 24 from Mörike-Lieder) Gebet (No. 28 from Mörike-Lieder) An die Geliebte (No. 32 from Mörike-Lieder) Der Feuerreiter (No. 44 from Mörike-Lieder) Gesang Weylas (No. 46 from Mörike-Lieder) Storchenbotschaft (No. 48 from Mörike-Lieder) Abschied (No. 53 from Mörike-Lieder) Harfenspieler I (No. 1 from Goethe-Lieder) Harfenspieler II (No. 2 from Goethe-Lieder) Harfenspieler III (No. 3 from Goethe-Lieder) Anakreons Grab (No. 29 from Goethe-Lieder) Der Rattenfänger (No. 11 from Goethe-Lieder) Verborgenheit (No. 12 from Mörike-Lieder) Gerald Moore (piano)

Plus extracts from two interviews recorded in 2000 and 2005: some parts of the interviews have previously been aired by the WFMT Radio Network and published by VAI and Gramophone, and those organisations have kindly agreed to their reissue here. However, much of this documentary has never been heard or published before.

Sung texts with translations can be found on CD11 in pdf form, which can be accessed from any computer equipped with CD-ROM drive and Adobe Acrobat 6.0.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)

“All in all, this is a magnificent retrospective...Strongly recommended.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2010

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Verdi: La Traviata

Live from La Scala, 2007

Angela Gheorghiu (Violetta), Ramón Vargas (Alfredo), Roberto Frontali (Germont), Natasha Petrinsky (Flora), Tiziana Tramonti (Annina), Enrico Cossutta (Gastone), Luigi Roni (Grenvil), Alessandro Paliaga (Douphol), Piero Terranova (Marchese d'Obigny)

Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of The Teatro Alla Scala, Lorin Maazel (conductor) & Liliana Cavani (director)

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+ Bonus Feature: Over 1 hour of highlights from 26 critically acclaimed Opera, Ballet & Documentary productions on Blu-ray Disc!

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Sound Format: dts-HD Master Audio 7.1

Picture Format: 16:9

Resolution: 1080i FULL HD

Blu-ray Disc: 50 GB (Dual Layer)

Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES, JP (La Traviata)

Running Time: 200 mins

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“Best is Angela Gheorghiu's Violetta. Vocally, she shirks nothing, and her prodigious technique is up to every demand. She throws herself at the drama, exhibiting convincing body language as the feverish pleasure-seeker of Act I and the stricken woman of the last. As Alfredo, Ramón Vargas... presentable... so too is Roberto Frontali as his father, a diligent and thought-through portrayal... Immaculate playing from the Scala orchestra, and some sensitive conducting from Lorin Maazel…” BBC Music Magazine, November 2008 ****

“The Germonts, son and father, are maddeningly stupid characters but decent, honest singers, the one (Ramón Vargas) not imaginative but capable of delicacy, the other (Roberto Frontali) clean-cut in his tone and modestly affecting in his aria. Maazel's conducting is a model of controlled flexibility, and the orchestra respond to him with unfailing precision. Visually, the production is a treat, the chorus handled unfussily as a collection of individuals, with the principal characters and their relationships given thoughtful and sensitive preparation. To be ranked with the Los Angeles production with Fleming and Villazón (see above): we should count ourselves a favoured generation to have both or the choice of either.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

“…such blemishes as occur in the Scala production are incidental to its general excellence and to the greatness of Angela Gheorghiu's Violetta. …here she is once again a true artist, the voice lovely as ever throughout most of its range, the expressive art in both singing and acting matured so that this portrayal is intensely moving and memorable. Maazel's conducting is a model of controlled flexibility, and the orchestra respond to him with unfailing precision. Visually, the production is a treat, the chorus handled unfussily as a collection of individuals, with the principal characters and their relationships given thoughtful and sensitive preparation.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2009

“The stage spectacle, as one would expect from this source, is full of colour...and the production overall is satisfying. Lorin Maazel directs his La Scala forces with vitality and warmth and there is excellent camera control.”” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition ***

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Nicolai Gedda: Lyric Poet of the Tenor Voice

85th Birthday

Includes

Adam:	Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)
Auber:	Du pauvre seul ami fidèle (from La Muette de Portici)
Bach, J S:	Cantata BWV189 'Meine Seele ruhmt und preist' Cantata BWV55 'Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht' Cantata BWV160 'Ich weiß, daß mein Erloeser lebt' St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Geduld, Geduld Mass in B minor: Benedictus
Beethoven:	Christus am Ölberge: Jehova, du mein Vater...Meine Seele ist erschüttert Adelaide, Op. 46 An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98
Bellini:	Prendi l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula)
Berlioz:	Une heure encore (from Benvenuto Cellini) Seul pour lutter, seul avec mon courage (from Benvenuto Cellini)
Bizet:	Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) A cette voix quel trouble… Je crois entendre encore (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen)
Cilea:	È la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico' (from L'Arlesiana)
Delibes:	Lakmé! Lakmé! Ah! Viens dans la forêt profonde (from Lakmé)
Donizetti:	Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore) Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Tombe degl'avi miei … Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor) Povero Ernesto...cercherò lontano terra (from Don Pasquale) Com'é gentil…Tornami a dir (from Don Pasquale) Spirto gentil ne' sogni miei (from La Favorita)
Flotow:	Jungfrau Maria (from Alessandro Stradella) Ach, so fromm (from Martha)
Glinka:	A Life for the Tsar: Bratsï! V metel', v nevedomoy glushi
Gluck:	Alceste : Air d'Admete 'Bannis la crainte et les alarmes Unis des la plus tendre enfance (from Iphigénie en Tauride) Divinité des grandes âmes (from Iphigénie en Tauride) Che puro ciel (Orfeo ed Euridice) French version J'ai perdu mon Eurydice (from Orphée et Eurydice)
Goldmark:	Magische Töne, berauschender Duft (from Die Königin von Saba)
Gounod:	Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust) Mon cœur est plein d'un noir soucis... Anges du Paradis (from Mireille) L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette)
Kalman:	Tanzen Möcht' ich (from Die Csárdásfürstin) Wenn es Abendd … Grüß mir mein Wien (from Gräfin Mariza) Auch ich war einst ein feiner Csárdákavalier … Komm, Zigan (from Gräfin Mariza) Heut' Nacht hab' ich geträumt von Dir (from Das Veilchen von Montmartre)
Lalo:	Vainement, ma bien-aimée (from Le roi d’Ys)
Lehár:	Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini) Allein, wieder allein (from Der Zarewitsch) Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns) O Mädchen, mein Mädchen (from Friederike)
Lortzing:	Lebe wohl, mein flandrisch Mädchen (from Zar und Zimmermann)
Massenet:	Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon) Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon) Un autre est son époux! Traduire! (from Werther)
Mendelssohn:	Elijah: Ye people, rend your hearts Elijah: If with all your hearts
Meyerbeer:	Beauté Divine (from Les Huguenots) Ô Paradis (from L'Africaine)
Millöcker:	Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)
Mozart:	Konstanze, Konstanze...O wie ängstlich (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail) In Mohrenland gefangen war (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail) Un'aura amorosa del nostro tesoro (from Così fan tutte) Se all' Impero (from La Clemenza di Tito) Per pieta, non ricercate KV 420 Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte) Dalla sua pace (from Don Giovanni) Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni)
Mussorgsky:	At midnight, in the garden, by the fountain (from Boris Godunov) That wily Jesuit has firmly seized me (from Boris Godunov) Why my sad heart? (from Sorochinsky Fair)
Nicolai, C O:	Horch, die Lerche singt im Hain! 'Romance' (from Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor)
Offenbach:	Va pour Kleinzach...Il était une fois à la cour (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Ponchielli:	Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda)
Puccini:	Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut) Che gelida manina (from La Bohème) Recondita armonia (from Tosca) E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia (from Madama Butterfly) Nessun dorma (from Turandot)
Rimsky Korsakov:	Solynshko nizko, vecher uzh blisko (The sun is low, the evening is approaching) (from May Night) Kak tikho, kak prokhladno tut! (How peaceful, how fresh it is here!) (from May Night) Song of the Hindu Guest (from Sadko)
Rossini:	Asile héréditaire (from Guillaume Tell) Ecco, ridente in cielo (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia)
Rousseau, J-J:	Je vais revoir ma charmante maîtresse... Quand on sait (from Le Devin du Village)
Schubert:	Die schöne Müllerin, D795
Straus, O:	Ich hab' mit Freuden angehört (from Ein Walzertraum)
Strauss, J, II:	Eine Nacht in Venedig: Komm in die Gondel Als flotter Geist (from Der Zigeunerbaron)
Tchaikovsky:	Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin) Forgive me, loveliest of creatures (from Pique Dame) What is our life? A game! (from Pique Dame)
Thomas, Ambroise:	Adieu, Mignon! Courage! (Mignon)
Verdi:	Ella mi fu rapita! (from Rigoletto) Parmi veder le lagrime (from Rigoletto) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera) Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida) Ingemisco (from Requiem)
Wagner:	In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) Mein lieber Schwan (from Lohengrin)
Weber:	Nein! länger trag' ich nicht die Qualen…Durch die Wälder (from Der Freischütz) Von Jugend auf in dem Kampfgefild (from Oberon) Vater! Hör' mich flehn zu dir! (from Oberon)

and lieder by Faure, Poulenc, Debussy, Hahn, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Grieg, Alfven, Peterson-Berger, Sjöberg, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Veracini, Respighi, Turina, Curtis, Bixio, Rotter, Tauber, Stolz,

Nicolai Gedda (tenor)

“Gedda's standard of vocalisation and his grasp of many styles are uniformly excellent...his humour is always special, as is the technique which sees quite a light voice safely through "Nessun Dorma" and the Butterfly duet.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2010

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